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Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46
Haddelsey, Stephen, Carroll, Alan
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Description for Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46
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In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amid the blizzards and glaciers of the Antarctic. Originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in ... Read more
In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amid the blizzards and glaciers of the Antarctic. Originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Spellmount
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752493565
SKU
V9780752493565
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Ref
99-44
About Haddelsey, Stephen, Carroll, Alan
STEPHEN HADDELSEY is the author of three previous books on the history of polar exploration: Born Adventurer: The Life of Frank Bickerton, Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse and Shackleton's Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica (nominated for the William Mills Prize for Polar Literature). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is currently ... Read more
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